Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.